NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Middle Tennessee serves as a hub for drug trafficking because of its geographical location with fentanyl serving as one of the biggest concerns plaguing the drug epidemic, according to law enforcement officials.
“It’s no secret that, you know, we know that Mexican cartels, drug trafficking organizations, whatever you want to call them, do have a role in the fentanyl and other drugs that are making it in, not just to Middle Tennessee, but the United States of America,” Lt. Matthew Boguskie with the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) explained.
Often when illicit drugs like fentanyl make it to Tennessee, Boguskie said it can be difficult to pin point exactly where it originated from.
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“We see a lot of it coming from the West Coast. We see some of it coming from the north, some we would probably actually be able to track back, maybe from another country, coming across the border,” he said.